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Oppose Update of Procedures for Implementing the National Environmental

Update of Procedures for Implementing the National Environmental Policy Act and Assessing the Environmental Effects Abroad of EPA Actions

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCYFederal Register 2026-12862 ↗

Greater sage-grouse displaying on a lek in sagebrush country
Pictured: Greater sage-grouse displaying on a lek in sagebrush country

The groups on this fight

4 groups predicted likely to care in Colorado

Predicted likely to care is a guess from footprint in Colorado, by the same match the STAND matchmaker runs, with no link to this decision. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.

  • Center for Biological Diversity

    Predicted likely to care · a guess

    Works Colorado: led the coalition suit against the Uinta Basin Railway, whose oil trains would run the river corridors below the monument.

  • Rocky Mountain Wild

    Predicted likely to care · a guess

    Works Colorado: joined the formal challenge to the January 2026 replacement lease sale and previously sued BLM over the Roan Plateau leases.

  • San Juan Citizens Alliance

    Predicted likely to care · a guess

    Works Colorado: shaped the 2010 management plan, has fought oil and gas leasing decisions inside the monument for two decades, mobilized against the 2017 monument review, and states it continues to defend CANM.

  • WildEarth Guardians

    Predicted likely to care · a guess

    Works Colorado: named petitioner against the Uinta Basin Railway over habitat destruction in the basin.

Every group above is on STAND for Public Lands, with its court record, its filings and who backs it.

EPA's proposing to overhaul how it implements NEPA environmental reviews, incorporating recent legislative changes from the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025, plus Trump's 'Unleashing American Energy' executive order. The rule would streamline and likely narrow the scope of environmental analysis required for EPA actions, aligning with a Supreme Court ruling that limits how broadly agencies must consider indirect effects. Conservation professionals should expect reduced environmental scrutiny on EPA-permitted or -approved projects affecting public lands and waterways.

In the agency’s own words

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) is proposing amendments to its procedures for implementing the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA). This proposed rule would also include technical amendments to the Agency's procedures to improve clarity, correct errors, and update office names and titles. This proposed rule would amend EPA's NEPA implementing procedures by incorporating proposed revisions to create efficiencies in the implementation of NEPA and to harmonize EPA's NEPA Implementing Procedures with other federal agencies' procedures, where possible.…

Federal Register 2026-12862 ↗

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